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The temporal dimension in enduser programming for the Web

Eytan Adar,¹ Mira Dontcheva,² James A. Fogarty,³ Daniel S. Weld³¹University of Michigan²Adobe Systems3University of Washington

ABSTRACT

Despite the dynamic nature of the Web, most people only view and interact with a static snapshot. Search engines, browsers, and higher-level end user programming environments only support observing and manipulating a single point in time – the “now.” We propose that moving beyond this static viewpoint is important because (1) maintaining a temporal view of the Web allows users to more clearly understand the behavior of their “programs,” both in static and dynamic contexts; and (2) temporally changing information on the Web is interesting in ...